“It is not right and it is not just to say that Islam is terroristic,” the pope says, adding that no religion has a monopoly of violent members

Pope Francis said Islam shouldn't be identified with violence and suggested that the social marginalization of Muslim youth in Europe helped explain the acts of those who joined extremist groups. Photo/Video: AP

ROME—Pope Francis said the inspiration for terrorism wasn’t Islam but a world economy that worshiped the “god of money” and drove the disenfranchised to violence.

“Terrorism grows when there is no other option, and as long as the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person, “ the pope told reporters late Sunday as he returned to the Vatican from a five-day visit in Poland. “This is fundamental terrorism, against all humanity.”